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The Consequences of Checking Too Often

Maybe I’ll turn off Google Notifier and push Mail’s schedule back to checking for new mail “every hour.”

BBC News highlights a study that finds that incessant email/txt/message checking causes people to suffer as if they’ve pulled an all-nighter. An IQ test showed the distractees losing an average of 10-points - “more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking marijuana.”

From plastcbag


1 Comment

Interesting article but I am wondering how often is “often” for checking email and text messages? Common sense would tell you that in a business setting it would take you off track from what ever you were doing to answer an email or text and you would have to take the time to reset your thoughts on the previous task.

Posted by Kim on 16 March 2007 @ 8am

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